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...bring out as soon as possible les Marguerites, those divine sonnets by the French Petrarch! We must carry our friend through on the shield of stamped ... ... This privi- lege of being everywhere at home is the prerogative of kings, courtesans, and thieves. “When you feel quite well,” this strange priest we... ...ing to see the priest making this girl repeat Ave Maria and Paternoster in French. “That is very fine!” said Esther, when she had repeated these two g... ...was the life of Mazarin, the Italian cardinal, than that of Richelieu, the French cardinal. Richelieu met with opposition from the great nobles, and h... ...gh to avert annoyance, but significant of such deep contempt as killed all French geniality. He thus had very soon got rid of 60 Scenes from a Courte... ...women, for it takes up too much time, and is rarely carried out by any but courtesans, women of the town, or fine ladies who have the day before them.... ... the miraculous energy he displayed in aiding Fouche in the defence of the French coast when threatened by what was known at the time as the W alchere... ...he hands of the appraiser, scat- ters the shabby muffs, the ragged furs of courtesans at bay. There is a dunghill of flowers, among which here and the... ...les of true love. She had loved Lucien for six years as actresses love and courtesans—women who, having rolled in mire and impurity, thirst for someth...

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...nd get blood sucker.” Donnie scratched his chin. “Lil’ Nell works the lower French Quarter. Right?” “She did. After Sasha disappeared, Nell closed... ...J. Morgan 20 “Sounds good to me. I’m starving. What to grab some stuffed French toast at the IHOP?” About time he noticed. My stomach had been... ...ain the missing prostitutes. Rudolpho would never lower himself to feed from courtesans.” “Instead of one freaky killer, we got four?” This kept ge...

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...es: suddenly became allies. He was defeated not once, but twice. And the French Bourbon King was re-instated. Yet, in a very short time, The B... ...iving the masses any actual power at all. If you study the history of the French Revolution without obsessively focusing on the leaders: you will... ... badly every time his armies were larger than the armies of his enemies. The French Revolution is an obvious illustration of the pendulum Dynamic. ... ...h nearly all of his country’s wealth in his pockets, to live in luxury on the French Riviera. Russian New-age gangster’s becoming New-age warlords ... ... stop trading with Uganda altogether. The Press had a field day vilifying the French for their inhumanity and for their anti-American policies… Sin... ...men and children in all the cities and towns he conquered. It was normal for courtesans to poison each other and their rulers every chance they got....

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most importan...

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...ar Baron,—Y ou have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast “History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,” you have given me so much encour... ...the Church or Finance. Intrusted in the days of yore with the keeping of a French March, the title of marquis in their family meant no shadow of imagi... ...of the year 1750; he told of the orgies in petites maisons, the follies of courtesans, the capital tricks played on creditors, the manners, in short, ... ...e King had adopted. But the Marquis could not bring himself to give up the Frenchman’s knee-breeches nor yet the white silk stockings or the buckles a... ...versa- tion, and gave the pair a broadside of her eyes, an art acquired by Frenchwomen since the Peace, when Englishwomen im- ported it into this coun... ...ous commentary in the after-thoughts of either speaker, puts the old-world French chat of men and women, with its pleasant familiarity, its lively eas...

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...s the perfect freedom with which this lovely daughter of T uscany wore her French attire; she had Italianized it. A Frenchwoman treats her shirt with ... ...k the whole of the bottle of port, eaten half a fish and some portion of a French pate, he felt an irresistible longing for bed. Perhaps he was suffer... ...nd in fact a few minutes later a young lady came in, dressed in the latest French style, who might have sat for some English fancy portrait engraved f... ...o has fallen in love. T o picture la Tinti you must recall one of our best French singers when she came out in Il Fazzoletto, an opera by Garcia that ... ...ristic of Italian women. La Tinti—whose name also resembled that which the French singer assumed—was now seventeen, and the poor Prince three-and-twen... ...orne on the flight of a cannon-ball—or else stretched on a bed between two courtesans; or again, she rises in the steam of a bowl of punch, or the daz...

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...udes, devised by Ferdinand de Gramont, gentleman,” is a complete manual of French Heraldry, in which noth- ing is forgotten, not even the arms of the ... ...od one of the most ter- 5 Balzac rible sieges of our religious wars, when French Calvinists far outdid the ferocious Cameronians of Walter Scott’s ta... ...nymous fame. Though a mixture of verse and prose is a monstrous anomaly in French literature, there must be exceptions to the rule. This tale will be ... ... in soci- ety. Though the sound common sense which lies at the root of the French nature was not perverted, women were suf- 36 The Muse of the Depart... ...time, would certainly have been hooted. The provin- cial public—like every French public, perhaps—does not share the love of the King of the French fo... ...erself to go to the balls at the Opera-house, and to suppers where she met courtesans, in order to keep an eye on all Etienne’s amuse- ments. 143 Bal... ...t dying; and if God gives her life, if you amend your ways, if you give up courtesans and actresses, we will find you a better match than a Felicie Ca...

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...to his putative son; a generosity which did not cost Lord Dudley too dear. French funds were worth at that time seventeen francs, fifty centimes. The ... ...him sometimes behind the scenes of theatres, more often into the houses of courtesans; he exhib- ited human emotions to him one by one; taught him pol... ...e, Don Hijos, Marquis de San-Real, who, since the oc- cupation of Spain by French troops, had taken up his abode in Paris, and lived in the Rue St. La... ... corvette built for speed, which rushes down upon the merchant vessel with French impetuosity, which grapples with her and sinks her at the same time.... ...th other houses. The porter is an old Spaniard, who never speaks a word of French, but peers at people as Vidocq might, to see if they are not thieves... ...ndent used; moreover, all the implements and stamps necessary to affix the French and English postmarks. He wrote the following letter, to which he ga...

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...Plata, as they sup- posed, but was now one of the greatest geniuses of the French school of painting; a fact the family did not believe. The eldest so... ...ine apartment in the rue Saint-Georges; in short, she is, in proportion to French fortunes of the present day compared with those of former times, a r... ... system, which is, let us say it frankly, ignoble? Yes, ignoble; and yet a Frenchman is, of all nationalities, the one most persistent in this folly! ... ...r give the tone to women’s fashions, 19 Balzac and yet the hats which all Frenchmen wear to-day are made in every country on earth! There are ten mil... ...ever varies; and the one we now speak of had already seen seven careers of courtesans. A broker had brought there, about the year 1827, Suzanne du Val...

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... to be as great as he; but every form of greatness is famil- iar to you. A French savant could make a reputation, earn a professor’s chair, and a doze... ...ris is a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or ho... ...nse mass of glittering ornaments that sparkled on the rich uniforms of the French army and civil officials. The 31 Balzac Emperor, a true Italian in ... ...runelleschi, Ghiberti, Benvenuto Cellini, John of Bologna, and others. The French masters of the Renaissance had never invented more strangely twining... ...he Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the French Opera, was to take the part of Alice. This little pantomime did not ... .... Thus Madame Marneffe is, as it were, the type of those ambitious married courtesans who from the first accept depravity with all its consequences, a... ...ann, an artist in vogue in the world of journalists, famous actresses, and courtesans of the better class, was a young man of fashion whom Valerie muc... ...you win fame and fortune by sustained work, if you have nothing to do with courtesans and ignoble, defiling ways, you will find me still a wife worthy... ...er all his rivals, that he has never fallen below his first successes. The courtesans could never dispense with these two kings of ready wit. No suppe...

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...he du Guaisnics. Old as the granite of Brittany, the Guaisnics are neither Frenchmen nor Gauls,—they are Bretons; or, to be more ex- act, they are Cel... ..., the literature of the dead languages, and to a very restricted choice of French writers. When, at sixteen, he began what the Abbe Grimont called his... ...fection. He saw before his eyes the works of modern painters, those of the French school, to-day the heir of Italy, Spain, and Flanders, in which tale... ...hat charming Parisian raillery, that graceful satire which revealed to him French wit and the qualities of the French mind, and awak- ened in him a th... ...r a bru- nette. Besides, blondes are more womanly; we are too like men, we French brunettes—Well, well!” she cried, “pray don’t fall in love with Beat... ...riumphs a week, Beatrix had recourse to the knowledge and the sci- ence of courtesans. Without acknowledging to herself the baseness of this plan, led... ... her repugnance.” If you deny this principle, divined by all coquettes and courtesans through- out all social zones, you may as well reject all seeker... ... paschal lamb. She wished, also, to deceive all Paris. She loved,—loved as courtesans and as angels love, with pride, with humility. But the opera cha... ...s given to the man who surmounts them. Maxime was, in the eyes of rats and courtesans, an extremely powerful and capable man, who had known how to mak...

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... Menage, St. Evremonde, de Malherbe, and others, who first cleaned out the French language, sent foreign words to the rightabout, and gave the right o... ... When the above mentioned captain came in his turn into the chamber of the French king, he asked him respectfully if it was his good pleasure to permi... ...eat advantage of the Castilian imagination over the simple movement of the French. T o which the Marchesa of Amaesguy consented for the honour of Spai... ...ill was a sneeze, or a case of vio- lence; in short, that the embrace of a French woman brought back the drinker more thirsty than ever, tiring him ne... ...o my own style, because I have been compelled to turn them from Latin into French. I commence:—At Poissy the nuns were accustomed to, when Mademoisell... ...ied by thousands of sufferers, labouring people, old soldiers, war- riors, courtesans, and others, whom the said girls had succoured, saved from misfo...

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...pinesses which a rigid mother denied to the Eugenie of these pages. Though Frenchmen are taxed with incon- stancy, you will find me Italian in faithfu... ... with blue velvet of that tender shade, with shimmering reflections, which French industry has lately learned to fabricate. Over the doors and windows... ..., the daughter of the Comte de Granville, one of the greatest names in the French magistracy,—a man who be- came peer of France after the revolution o... ... maid taught them drawing. A worthy priest instructed them in grammar, the French language, history, geography, and the very little arithmetic it was ... ...rrounded by dangerous relations and intimate enemies. Every one knows that French literature at that particular period was endeavoring to defend itsel... ...ompromise themselves with a lofty disdain that re- sembles the boldness of courtesans. As soon as by her specious distinctions Marie had con- vinced h...

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... I have of it. T reason and traitors, and the smuggling of them out and in; and the French recruiting, weary fall it! and the smuggling through of the... ...mind for Robbie,” cries he. “A Stewart, too, puir deevil! and has smuggled out more French recruits and trafficking Papists than what he has hairs upo... ... a strange tongue; and I found out later that this was Picardy, a village where the French weavers wrought for the Linen Company. Here I got a fresh d... ...” “Time flies, Alan,” said I. “I ken that,” said Alan. “I ken naething else, as the French folk say. But this is a dreidful case of heids or tails. O!... ...he Lowlander having produced provisions) I was given oatmeal bread and a pitcher of French brandy. This done, I was left once more alone with my three... ...h wild- like, outlandish characters – bearded Hebrews, black men, and the hordes of courtesans, most indecently adorned with finery and stopping seame...

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...ainted as an ideal head of Germany. Wallenrod invested enough money in the French funds to give his daughter thirty thou- sand francs a year, and sett... ...her with his cottons, a pretty little wife, attracted it would seem by his French nature. Miss Grummer was worth about four thousand dollars (twenty t... ...the use of two languages, she could speak and read German quite as well as French; she had also, together with her sister, learned English from Ma- da... ...ste fed her soul on the modern masterpieces of three literatures, English, French, and German. Lord Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Walter Scott, Hugo, Lamar... ...t gratifies the vanity, —that pow- erful auxiliary to all action among the French. Out of this third period of the development of her ideas, there cam... ...ral tastes, forbid my wearing orna- ments which are only fit for queens or courtesans. Besides, I can only accept gifts from a bridegroom. Beg him to ...

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...ing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis; sketch of Dumas in 1869, French artist Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsy... ...d Danglars. “No! — you undertook to do so.” “True,” replied Danglars; “the French have the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate... ...the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate, while the French in- vent.” “Do you invent, then,” said Fernand impatiently. “Waiter,... ...and a soldier, to tell me where we are going. I am Captain Dantes, a loyal Frenchman, Alexandre Dumas 65 thought accused of treason; tell me where yo... ... the year 1811; since then I have demanded my liberty from the Italian and French government.” “Why from the French government?” “Because I was arrest... ...owing hair. They were Phryne, Cleopatra, Messalina, those three celebrated courtesans. Then among them glided like a pure ray, like a Christian angel ...

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...ok (much too long) on the era of imperial Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, criticism applied to history might then have prepared th... ... vigorously defended. Moreover, un- der Henry VI. he defeated ten thousand French troops with fifteen hundred weary and famished men. So much for war.... ...ridiculous stories are told about the author of one of the finest books in French literature,—”Pantagruel.” Aretino, the friend of Titian, and the Vol... ...and, Holland, and the Holy Ro- man Empire would not have welcomed banished Frenchmen and encouraged revolt in France. Why refuse, in these days, to th... ... hun- dred thousand ducats. A ducat was a gold piece of the size of an old French louis, though less thick. (The old louis was worth twenty-four franc... ... called, was worth twenty francs. To-day, the lesser bour- geoisie and the courtesans who edge their capes with sable, are ignorant than in 1440 an il...

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...I am crazy with delight at the thought of hearing Italian music and seeing French acting. Already I begin to drop convent habits for those of society.... ...’s daring, men stick all their lives to this ridiculous headpiece. And yet Frenchmen are said to be fickle! The men are hideous anyway, whatever they ... ...o- land, and Germany? His bad luck only forsook him at Ber- lin, where the French Minister helped his return to his native country. M. de l’Estorade, ... ... many girls of good family into convents as it will find husbands for. The French nobility, from the little I have been able to gather, seem to be div... ...tched to wait for me at a point on the coast; and when Ferdinand urged the French to secure my person, I was al- ready in my barony of Macumer, amidst... ...ieu to play the spy. I had sunk to the level of the gutter, by the side of courtesans, op- era-dancers, mere creatures of instinct; even the vulgar sh...

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...oughout nearly the entire Western Hemisphere. He had read the story of the FrenchRevolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of m... ...tand for their deliverance from monarchical rule, while time shall last. A French aristocrat of the purest strain of blood and of the most honorable l... ... “Democracy in America,” by Alexis Charles Henri Clerel de T ocqueville, a French nobleman, born at Paris, July 29, 1805. Bred to the law, he exhibite... ...839 he was elected to the Cham- ber of Deputies. He became a member of the French Acad- emy in 1841. In 1848 he was in the Assembly, and from June 2nd... ...rom the mountains fall from all parts. In memory of their native land, the French formerly called this river the St. Louis. The Indians, in their pomp... ...ue armed in self-defence, there will be at the same time a great number of courtesans and a great number of virtuous women. This state of things cause...

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...uise felt humbled through her love, one of the sharpest of all pangs for a Frenchwoman, a mortification for which she cannot forgive her lover. In the... ...is directly affected by the caprices of the season and the vicissitudes of French agricul- ture. By eating your dinners at Flicoteaux’s you learn a ho... ...ather and good or bad seasons. He knows when it is a good year for peas or French beans, and the kind of salad stuff that is plentiful; when the Great... ...hopman. He had read the names on the sign- board—Vidal & Porchon (it ran), French and foreign book- sellers’ agents. “Both gentlemen are engaged,” sai... ...said, addressing both partners. The booksellers nodded slightly. “I have a French historical romance after the style of Scott. It is called The Archer... ...ury sought so eagerly of wantons of the Opera? Must one not first learn of courtesans and actresses the delights, the perfections, the transports, the...

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...formed was extremely disgusting; I enter- tained a particular aversion for courtesans, nor could I look on a rake without a degree of disdain mingled ... ...imself from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure ... ...eral books over fair, and trans- late commercial letters from Italian into French. All at once he thought fit to accept the before rejected proposal, ... ...I could have no conception that a native of Piedmont could speak such good French, and with so pure an accent. She was a middle-aged woman, of a noble... ...woman, of a noble appearance and cultivated understand- ing, being fond of French literature, in which she was well versed. Her letters had the expres... ...qui ne fue pas’. As the Piedmontese are not in general very perfect in the French language, they found fault with the orthography, saying, that in the...

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... as in the Annunciation, the Cu rator supplied it from his mound of books–French and Ger man, with photographs and reproductions. Here was the devou... ...pickpockets, and native employees of the Government. Here are discussed by courtesans the things which are supposed to be profoundest secrets of the I... ...attention to Latin and Wordsworth’s Excursion (all this was Greek to Kim). French, too was vital, and the best was to be picked up in Chandernagore a ... ...ait for them. I want to walk with them to Simla. You see, one Russian is a Frenchman, and I know my French pretty well. I have friends in Chandernagor... ...t can I do for you, please?’ The gentlemen were delighted. One was visibly French, the other Russian, but they spoke English not much inferior to the ... ...s. ‘They are all just of that pattern,’ said one sportsman to the other in French. ‘When we get into India proper thou wilt see. I should like to visi...

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...ated me then and thenceforth to glory, that priest- ess who slaughters the Frenchmen of to-day as the Druidess once sacrificed the Gauls. Suddenly I m... ...m, even when I saw him at his worst in after days. The natural gaiety of a Frenchman and a T ourangean soon deserted him; he became morose, fell ill, ... ...de, going but seldom to Frapesle, where, however, I dined three times. The French army now occupied T ours. Though my presence was health and strength... ...he Duc de Berry the court resumed its former splendor and the glory of the French fetes revived. The Al- lied occupation was over, prosperity reappear... ...vices of other countries were found magnified and whetted by the charms of French intellect. Five months after leaving Clochegourde my good angel wrot... ...; she knows it and is resigned. I have the right to leave her as men leave courtesans.” “And then?” “She tells me that she will kill herself,” I answe...

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...in our literature—a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be re- garded as a classic, not only in the land ... ...e did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mi... ...collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition. By the favour of Mr F . W . Cosens, I have had by me, while... ...ed Latin, without suffering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning French, thanks to the German teacher whom his father had placed near him, a... ...t. Michael, which was, as he informs us himself, the highest honour of the French noblesse. According to Lacroix du Maine, Montaigne, upon the death o... ..., on the contrary, that no one should wear scarlet or goldsmiths’ work but courtesans and tumblers. Zeleucus by the like invention reclaimed the corru...

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...s, He was taught Latin and mathematics by his uncle who knew neither , and French and the piano by his aunt. Of French she was ignorant, but she knew ... ...e study than the classics. Neither Ger - man nor chemistry was taught, and French only by the form-masters; they could keep order bet- ter than a fore... ...bet- ter than a foreigner, and, since they knew the grammar as well as any Frenchman, it seemed unimportant that none of them could have got a cup of ... ... hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could not think a man profound whose interests were so... ...to fall in with the new head’s ideas. Though the form-masters still taught French to the lower school, another master had come, with a degree of docto... ...practi- cally nothing on, and pointed out to him the most strapping of the courtesans who walked about the hall. It was a vulgar Paris that he showed ...

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...ab, as they term it, of exploits that are beyond human power. [Gaber. This French word signified a sort of sport much used among the French chivalry, ... ... to you which yonder infi- del must not hear.” These words he spoke in the French language, and not in the lingua franca, or compound of Eastern and E... ...their joint safety. The same disunion had begun to show itself betwixt the French and English, the Italians and the Germans, and even be- tween the Da... ...rned, either from imitation of their frequent allies, 88 The Talisman the French, or which might have arisen from their own proud and reserved charac... ... abjure his false law, I would aid him with my sword to drive this scum of French and Austrians from his dominions, and think Palestine as well ruled ... ...ian leaders had occasioned a motley concourse in their tents of musicians, courtesans, Jew- ish merchants, Copts, T urks, and all the varied refuse of...

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...e Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cygnes, or even, the King of the French. The numerous partisans of old Gondreville, the king of the departme... ...me, progress is fraternity re-established between the members of the great French family. We cannot conceal from ourselves that many sufferings—” At t... ...nning of 1814, Phileas had emptied his warerooms. The prospect of a war on French soil, the hard- ships of which were likely to press chiefly on Champ... ...d these facts. When the war ravaged Champagne, he kept himself between the French army and Paris. After each lost battle he went among the workmen who... ... read the words: Quo me trahit fortuna. Though he was not strong enough in French blazon to know the house that bore that device, Antonin felt sure th... ...e still continued the legal adviser of artists, men of letters, actresses, courtesans, and elegant bohemians like Maxime de T railles, because he like...

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...further side. “Don’t be afraid!” cried the peasant in his clumsy Valaisian French, and returned, returning along the plank that seemed quite sufficien... ...nd. Afterwards, rather ignobly, he tried to explain in his pub- lic-school French. “Pas de peur,” he said. “Pas de peur. Mais la tete, n’a pas l’habit... ... insisted upon regarding Socialism as a proposal to reinaugurate the first French Revolution, as an inversion of society so that it would be bottom up... ...he eye like a vulture. It will have teeth like the English spin- ster in a French comic paper… . And we will fly….” “I shall enjoy it very much,” said... ...personal bitterness. And he found his chief ally in a rigorous and voluble Frenchman named Carnac, an aggressive Roman Catholic, who opened his speech... ...are people whose only happiness is chastity, and women who would rather be courtesans than mothers. Some of us would concentrate upon a single passion...

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...k of the Seine as it was under Charles IX. Why should not the historian of French society, a new Old Mortality, endeavor to save these curious express... ...igitte’s eyes Jerome was the handsomest and most charming man in the whole French Empire. T o keep house for this cherished brother, to be initiated i... ...a water-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that ... ...fortune in one of those wicked conceptions which reflect such discredit on French commerce, but which, in the year 1827, had not yet been exposed and ... ...rown pretentious with wealth, without, at the same time, learning to speak French. She was now very fat, and gave the idea, in her rich surroundings, ... ... it does sometimes happen that the same form of proceeding must be used by courtesans and by the men of God. “Monsieur l’abbe,” said Felix to the youn...

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...B B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA CA CATI TI TI TI TIO O O O ON N N N N The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle is a publicatio... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume One) by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvan... .................................................................. 245 6 The French Revolution: V ol. One THE FRENCH REVOLUTION A HISTORY by THOMAS CARL... ...the flock knows it, and heeds it not. At most, in the immeasurable tide of French Speech (which ceases not day after day, and only ebbs towards the sh... ...ier to get ‘quashed’ by backstairs Influences than to get answered: 8 The French Revolution: V ol. One neither could the thoughts, or even the tongue... ...ry and spicery,—of multiform taste, from opera-melodies down to racers and courtesans; since the Units will be amused. It is at bottom but a mad state...

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...ed unmoved and imperial with an air-pump thrust into one eye. Portraits of French sheriffs and Dutch burgomasters, phlegmatic now as when in life, loo... ...ure was the sport of sover- eigns; and from their councils, churchmen with courtesans’ arms about them issued decrees of chastity for simple priests. ... ...ineteenth century; the time and place made sorcery impossible. The idol of French scepticism had died in the house just opposite, the disciple of Gay-... ...t me, without making you blush for it, and without giving you so much as a French centime, a para from the Levant, a German heller, a Russian kopeck, ... ...nse of the imagination that would find a parallel neither in the freaks of courtesans, nor in the dreams of young girls. For a year past I had beheld ... ... potations, see her still when I was overcome with wine, or in the arms of courtesans; and know that I was a target for her scornful jests! Oh, that I... ... I wished never to be alone with myself, and I must have false friends and courtesans, wine and good cheer to distract me. The ties that attach a man ... ...eathed several amounts to public 149 Balzac institutions in his will, the French Government sent in a claim for the remainder to the East India Compa... ..., everything lies under his feet. From this time forth the axiom that ‘all Frenchmen are alike in the eyes of the law,’ is for him a fib at the head o...

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...ay. I fancy I must have been impressed by the écriture artiste which the French writers of the time had not yet entirely aban doned, and unwisely s... ...he staff of St Luke’s, and had come ostensibly to study the methods of the French operators; but his real object was certainly to see Margaret Dauncey... ...at savoured almost of leger demain. Though the hint of charlatanry in the Frenchman’s methods had not escaped Arthur Burdon’s shrewd eyes, the audaci... ...s hospital, and took pains to read every word, not only in English, but in French and German, which was published concerning his profession. Whenever ... ...The divine music of Keats’s lines rang through Arthur’s remark, and to the Frenchman’s mind gave his passion a ro mantic note that foreboded future t... ...the mighty dead appeared before her; and she saw grim tyrants, and painted courtesans, and Roman emperors in their purple, and sultans of the East. Al... ...women of the world, admirably gowned, actresses of renown, and fashionable courtesans. The noise was very great. A Hungarian band played in a distant ...